186 - Twin City Model Railroad Museum - Many Layouts and Scales - 2024 Video Compilation - Part 11

This video is a compilation of a number of videos on YouTube about the Twin City Model Railroad Museum.
The Museum has the famous O Scale Layout, but also many has other Model Railroad Layouts in many different scales and sizes.

Some of these are shown in the video. This video starts with the smallest Scales located in the Mine-sota Gallery of the Museum and goes up to the larger Scales.

The smaller trains are N Scale - 1/160 th of the real ones and continues to HO - 1/87th scale -- to O Scale and Lionel at 1/48th to G Gauge (Garden Gauge) at 1/24th.
The LEGO group at the Museum has even created a new very very small scale - A Scale - 1/378th named after Adam who is member of the group.
At the end of the video - The American Freedom Train which ran for the US Bi-Centennial in 1976 is shown in A Scale. The Locomotive - a Southern Pacific GS-4 Class 4-8-4 Steam Locomotive which was used - has also been created using LEGO pieces - it is shown in LEGO Scale - approximately O Scale around 1/50th - it is shown both in the Southern Pacific orange and red - and the Bi-centennial red, white and blue.

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The video content is from a number of artists, videographers and YouTube Channels (list is shown below).

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If you and your family would like to see these trains operate - Please Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum

Open every Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday
The Regular Museum hours are
Friday 10 AM - 3 PM
Saturday 10AM – 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM – 5 PM
Monday 10 AM – 3 PM

NIGHT TRAINS
Night Trains will run on special days in 2024 - please check the website

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Other Special Events - Circus Trains, Military Trains (Memorial Day), Spooky Trains (Halloween) and Holiday Trains are run at different times during the year.

Please check the website for details

https://www.tcmrm.org/

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The Museum is located on Transfer Road (Cleveland Ave) near University Avenue next to the old Amtrak Station.
The address is 668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum has many of different types of trains, buildings and other models – of all sizes.

This video starts with the smallest Scales located in the Minne-sota Gallery of the Museum and goes up.
The first trains are N Scale - 1/160 th of the real ones and continues to O Scale and Lionel Standard Gauge at 1/32nd.


There are many different model: gauges, scales and sizes - including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout - 1/48th
G - Garden – about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale – 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Gauge - approx. 1/50th
S Scale – 1/64th – American Flyer Trains
OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale – 1/87th
OOO Scale - 1/152nd
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale – 1/220th.
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel,
American Flyer,
Märklin
Marx
Hornby
and others

There are also exhibits that show the various scales side by side - for comparision - inlcuding the International Train Display at the rear of the Museum.

The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables where they can create and build models and run wooden trains. There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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The Museum would like to thank the following videographers for visiting the Museum and for the use of their material in this series of videos.

Paul Gruetzman - Paul also has a YouTube Channel - Grandpa Choo Choo
The many scenes of the O scale Two Rail Trains were taken by Paul.
also
MattsRadShow
Minneapolis North Bay Ry
Frank Taylor
A Dreamin' Life
Popsdasuss
JLiu's15 Studio
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Music in the Video is by Danny Wright

The TCMRM would like to thank Danny for the use of his wonderful music.
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